From Low Pay, to Living Pay, to Upward Mobility Changing the direction of the current low pay culture requires an approach on three pillars:
1) government legislation to ensure minimum living wage,
2) corporate responsibility to invest in training to enable genuine career progression for the lowest paid positions, and
3) external support to allow families to self-invest, including child-care support, school meals, strong primary/secondary school education in lower income neighbourhoods, engaging after school activities, accessible higher education, supplementary adult education and skills training, and access to micro-credit to prevent debt spirals and jump start personal initiatives.

Who will calculate the true cost of such a platform? And equally importantly, who will calculate the long term social cost of the alternative: declining mental and physical health, family instability, lower social productivity, and the scourge of generational poverty?


https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/oct/19/uks-low-pay-culture-traps-people-in-poorly-paid-jobs-study-finds